Mary Mead, is still hot on the pursuit of the wrong suspect(s), Miss Marple – called in by her friend Dolly Bantry (Gwen Watford), the Colonel’s wife – has already found the solution relying on her ever-unfailing “village parallels,” those seemingly innocuous incidents of village life making up the sum of her knowledge of human nature, to which she routinely turns in unmasking even the cleverest killer. So, while Milchester C.I.D.’s Inspector Slack (David Horovitch), in charge of the investigation into the death of the platinum blonde whose body has mysteriously appeared in the library of Colonel Bantry (Moray Watson), squire of the village of St.

Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous,” he observes on one occasion. “Yet,” he continues, “her mind has plumbed the depths of human iniquity, and taken all in a day’s work.” And Vicar Clement, the narrator of Agatha Christie‘s first Miss Marple story, 1930’s Murder at the Vicarage, couldn’t agree more: “Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner – Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. … so you’d think,” retired Scotland Yard chief Sir Henry Clithering (Raymond Francis) says when describing Miss Marple to his friend, wealthy paraplegic Conway Jefferson (Andrew Cruickshank). “There she sits: an elderly spinster sweet, placid … There is no shortage of suspects, not only family members but the handsome Raymond Starr, another of the hotel's.

Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. | Miss Marple Synopsis A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. TV Episode Movie Groups Agatha Christie Adaptations Granada, WGBH Boston, Agatha Christie Genre Drama.

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